Zafar Bhatti. (Morning Star News) LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – A judge changed a Christian’s life prison term under Pakistan’s blasphemy laws into the death sentence last week, while the Pakistan Supreme Court granted historic bail to another Christian held on similar charges, sources said. Zafar Bhatti, 56, who has languished in jail since 2012 […]
Charred home of the slain Joseph Mwangi Maina in Widho, Lamu County, Kenya. (Morning Star News) NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Muslim extremists in Kenya, including suspected militants from Somalia, killed six Christians in southeastern Kenya between 11 p.m. Sunday (Jan. 2) and 3 a.m. Monday, sources said. Members and sympathizers of Somali militant group […]
Mosque in Uganda. (ctsnow’s, Creative Commons) NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – A Muslim in central Uganda is suspected of hanging his wife and two children because the young mother and oldest child received Christ after attending Christmas Day and Sunday worship services, sources said. A neighbor on Dec. 28 found Shamira Nakato hanged with her […]
Attack Occurs One Day After Six Christians Were Killed in Nearby Village 01/04/2022 Washington, D.C. (International Christian Concern) – A Christian man in Kenya was killed last night, January 3, by suspected al-Shabaab militants in Bobo-Hindi, just one day after six Christians were killed in a nearby village. Three houses were also set ablaze during the […]
Fulani Militants Threaten Further Attacks Against Christians in 2022 01/04/2022 Washington, D.C. (International Christian Concern) – Five people in Nigeria were brutally attacked by Fulani militants on Friday, December 31, while on their way home from an annual prayer meeting held for the Christian communities of Irigwe chiefdom. An International Christian Concern (ICC) correspondent who […]
Bodies Burned Beyond Recognition by Al-Shabaab Militants 01/03/2022 Washington, D.C. (International Christian Concern) – Six Christians were killed in the early hours of Monday, January 3, by suspected al-Shabaab militants in Widhu village, Lamu West, Kenya. Speaking to International Christian Concern (ICC) from the site of the attack, Pastor Stephen Sila of a local church in […]
Taliban in Herat, Afghanistan in 2001. (Bluuurgh, Creative Commons) NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Christian relatives of a convert who fled to India from Afghanistan shortly before the Taliban seized power described days of terror before they were able to leave the country. The Christian refugee in India, 24-year-old Esin, has been granted a visa […]
Destroyed crops on banana plantation of Umar Opoloto in Pallisa District, Uganda on Dec. 12, 2021. (Morning Star News) NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – A Christian woman and her children last week fled the violence of her Muslim husband in eastern Uganda, and earlier in a nearby district villagers destroyed a newly believing family’s crops […]
Sultan Bello Mosque, city of Kaduna, Kaduna state, Nigeria. (Anasskoko, Creative Commons) ABUJA, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Suspected Fulani herdsmen on Dec. 16 December killed four Christians in southern Kaduna state, Nigeria, sources said. Killed in Sako village, Zangon Kataf County were Samson Maza and David Garba, said Samuel Aruwan, commissioner of Kaduna state’s Ministry […]
Suspected Allied Democratic Forces suicide bomber kills six at Beni restaurant 12/25/2021 Democratic Republic of Congo (International Christian Concern) —At least six people dead and several injured after a suspected Allied Democratic Forces suicide bomber attacked the Ishango restaurant, in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, at 7 p.m. on Christmas Day. ICC’s partner in Beni confirmed the incident: “This is an action of terror. It points clearly to the heinous atrocities that the Allied Democratic […]